Special Issue: Strategies for Reproductive Success
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Reproductive success is the principal criterion for deciding Darwinian fitness or, as succintly defined by Strassman and Gillespie in this issue, an individual's genetic contribution to future generations. Hence, knowledge about the strategies for reproductive success is central for understanding evolutionary process.
The importance of the topic stems from its centrality to evolutionary process, its multidisciplinary nature, and the recent methodological advances permitting a deeper understanding of how reproductive success stands at the crossroads of anthropology, biology, demography, ecology, endocrinology, genetics, physiology, and primatology.
Overall, it is hoped that the assembled articles will help to launch a new generation of studies concerning the strategies for reproductive success and the continued development of young investigators interested in the interdisciplinary field of human biology.
These articles are provided free online by Wiley-Liss, Inc., the publishers of the American Journal of Human Biology, as a service to the scientific community.
American Journal of Human Biology - Special Issue
American Journal of Human Biology; Volume 15, No. 3, May/June 2003.
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Articles
Introduction: strategies for reproductive success
Lorna G. Moore, Emile Crognier
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Reproductive adaptations to a large-brained fetus open a vulnerability to anovulation similar to polycystic ovary syndrome
Deborah K. Barnett, David H. Abbott
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Prader-Willi syndrome and the evolution of human childhood
David Haig, Robert Wharton
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Human physiological adaptation to pregnancy: Inter- and intraspecific perspectives
L. Christie Rockwell, Enrique Vargas, Lorna G. Moore
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Energetics and reproductive effort
Peter T. Ellison
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Reproductive success: Which meaning?
E. Crognier
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How to measure reproductive success?
Beverly I. Strassmann, Brenda Gillespie
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Early Developmental conditions and reproductive success in humans: Downstream effects of prenatal famine, birthweight, and timing of birth
Virpi Lummaa
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Grandmothers and the evolution of human longevity
Kristen Hawkes
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Variability in reproductive success viewed from a life-history perspective in baboons
Jeanne Altmann, Susan C. Alberts
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